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Comment by Lucavious

As a Shadow Priest, Mind Flay will become your most oft used offensive ability. With the new talent tree introduced in 2.0.1 patch you can reduce the cost of casting by 15% of it's already low cast, becoming extremely mana efficient as far as damage output goes. When coupled with Vampiric Embrace this ability will be an extremely valuable health regeneration technique for your party, especially so when casting the occasional Mind Blast and Shadow Word: Pain.

With several Priests casting Mind Flay along with Vampiric Embrace you can effectively reduce the need for a healer, opting instead for an offensive group of Shadow Priests (Except during instances involving mobs of enemies as Mind Flay can be broken in a single attack; Power Word: Shield is your FRIEND!).

Comment by DarkCrisis

The bread and butter of a shadowpriest. This and Mind Blast will be your main face melting magic. Toss on a Vamp Embrace and SW: Pain and have fun.

Comment by 1337Lucius

A very useful macro for this spell that EVERY SINGLE SP should use to make their life easier is the following:

/cast mind flay

This allows you to spam the mind flay button (like, say, frostbolt) without starting the channel all over again. However, the channel will still get interrupted if you hit for example Mind Blast mid-channel. After I started using this I can't imagine DPSing without it :p

Comment by vevianx

As other like DarkCrisis have said, its gives the shadow priests the nickname "face melters" :D

Comment by rizzpapa

Sorry-- But at low lvl this spell is weak!

Comment by Flagg

"...and slowing their movement speed by 15%."Is it true? i don't find any difference between this and rank 2 which slow movement speed by 50%

Comment by AmoTHRILL

according to wowhead mind flay does 501 damage at level 1 and level 85.

You only get Mind Flay at level 10...

Comment by Yevon

On top of the whole: Movement speed slowed. buff There should be an added novelty buff just for laughs

Brain DamageI should read: "You've really done it this time!" as the debuff.

Comment by davesignal

Apply directly to the forehead.

Comment by DeGoudenEeuw

Pre-Wrath Mind Flay used to have a different graphic if someone's wondering, it was previosly akin to a bright blue lightning. This graphic can still be seen on everything else that melts faces in WoW, except for player shadow priests who now stand out.